The forthcoming Olympic Games in London has produced a wide range of creative responses, in the form of art, music and writing, long before its arrival. One such initiative is being driven by a ...
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Horace’s first experience of Rome was as a schoolboy. His father, a freedman who had risen to be a regional banker in Apulia, did not want him to go to the local school, where sons of the local ...
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Do you think Halloween, with its tradition of trick-or-treat, is a relatively modern holiday? Or maybe you've heard it associated with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain? Would you be surprised ...
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Magic was widely practised in the ancient world; archaeology and written texts provide considerable evidence for it. And what is fascinating about examining the many and varied rituals that ...
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